Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irresponsible users of LSD in Southern California, already noted for having tested, with fatal results, the notion that they can fly from tall buildings, last week added more dangers to the list of the drug's effects...
...town is Claes Oldenburg, a prematurely balding troll of 38. Among his what's-its on display at the Sidney Janis Gallery are: 1) a 6-ft.-long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and 42 removable raisins; 2) a 12-ft.-tall, droopy white canvas "ghost fan" (its mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist's face, cast thrice weekly...
Snow White, "a tall dark beauty containing a great many beauty spots," lives in an unnamed city with seven men -Bill, Kevin, Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem and Dan. When they are not taking showers with Snow White or making love to her, they keep busy washing buildings, carrying money to the vault and tending vats in which they brew Chinese baby food. The men are not dwarfs, but might as well be. Snow White says tartly: "The seven of them only add up to the equivalent of two real men." About all that they have in common, except Snow White...
Fireballing Mike Luggen won two games, and struck out the most opponents. The tall Kentuckian, who had arm trouble early in the spring, had a good curve and a moving fast ball. Gus Crimm, when he wasn't playing first base, also saw a good deal of action on the pitcher's mound...
Wilson, who because of the University's mandatory retirement policy must leave the Press this year, will go to a New York publishing firm. A tall Southern combination of forcefulness and gentleness who once addressed the Academy of Arts and Sciences in an impeccable blue pinstriped suit and desert books, he has been largely responsible for the Press's increased output in such formerly neglected fields as natural sciences and the history of science...